Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
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I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.
The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff... I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That... that's odd.
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.
Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear I can't lie.
Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.